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Review: ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ at Regent Theatre

Review: ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ at Regent Theatre

Photo credit Chris Davis Studio The Regent Theatre becomes the backdrop for the dystopian world of underground rebels, eternal youth, and forbidden love in Jim Steinman's rock musical. Released in the UK in February 2017, Steinman presents an adaptive retelling of Peter Pan (crossed with Romeo & Juliet), set in post-apocalyptic Manhattan (now named 'Obsidian'), and follows Strat, the forever young leader of 'The Lost' who has fallen in love with Raven, daughter of Falco, the tyrannical ruler of Obsidian. The music is the heart of the show. From the moment the eight-piece live band kicks into “All Revved Up…
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Celebrating South Asian Heritage Month with Sensasian

Celebrating South Asian Heritage Month with Sensasian

To celebrate South Asian Heritage month, the New Vic and Appetite present Sensasian, a series of exciting events including dance performances, live music, comedy and family activities, taking place from Monday 30 June to Saturday 26 July. Created in collaboration the South Asian communities of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, Sensasian is designed to showcase South Asian Culture and offer something for all ages to enjoy. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic Bollywood film Sholay and featuring mesmerising dance performances choreographed to the film’s legendary soundtrack, Yeh Dosti: Celebrating 50 Years of Sholay brings to life the energy, drama, and…
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30th Anniversary Of Srebrenica Genocide Commemorated With Special Performance

30th Anniversary Of Srebrenica Genocide Commemorated With Special Performance

New Vic Borderlines and Remembering Srebrenica present a special version of My Thousand Year Old Land (A Song for BiH) to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in the 1990s on Friday 11 July. Written by Bosnian war survivor Aida Haughton MBE and New Vic Borderlines Director Susan Moffat, the play is based on survivor testimonies from the genocide and war crimes that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 and tells a story of war and the search for truth, justice and hope through women whose lives are changed by the deaths of their…
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Review: Calamity Jane at Regent Theatre

Review: Calamity Jane at Regent Theatre

Photo credit Mark Senior The Wild West rides again in the 2025 UK tour of Calamity Jane, a high-spirited revival of the 1953 Doris Day and Howard Keel classic that’s captivated audiences for generations with its infectious energy and brilliant musical numbers. Under Nikolai Foster’s direction, the tour started in January of this year and has made its way to Regent Theatre on its latest leg. Anchored by a barnstorming performance from Carrie Hope Fletcher in the titular role, it is loosely based on the real life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores a romance between her and…
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Smash-hit Musical Six Returns To The Regent Theatre

Smash-hit Musical Six Returns To The Regent Theatre

After previous sell out success, the multi award-winning musical phenomenon Six makes its royal return to the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent from Wednesday 25 – Saturday 28 March 2026. SIX follows the six wives of Henry VIII as they take to the mic to tell their own personal tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. Since its early days as a student production in a 100-seat room at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the showhas fast become a global musical phenomenon. Six currently has productions playing on Broadway, a major US tour running concurrently. Meanwhile,…
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New Vic Theatre Present Rare Revival of Tom Wells’ Play Big Big Sky

New Vic Theatre Present Rare Revival of Tom Wells’ Play Big Big Sky

The New Vic present a rare revival of Big Big Sky by Tom Wells this July, marking only the second professional outing of this heartfelt and uplifting play from the award-winning playwright. Masterfully interweaving humour with moments of poignancy, Big Big Sky is set in a seaside café in Kilnsea, East Yorkshire, in a community nestled on the edge of an ever-changing landscape. With delicate nuance and warmth, the play explores the lives of four interconnected characters as they navigate themes of love, grief, friendship and motherhood. A moving ode to the beauty of everyday life, the play paints a…
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Operation Mincemeat Heads To The Regent Theatre

Operation Mincemeat Heads To The Regent Theatre

The world tour heads to the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent from Monday 27 April – Saturday 2 May 2026. In Operation Mincemeat, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself), Operation Mincemeat tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII. SpitLip, the musical’s writers and composers, commented:"Broadway opened the…
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Review: ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’ at Regent Theatre

Review: ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’ at Regent Theatre

Photo credit Alistair Muir The Regent transforms to 80's Liverpool as hard hitting drama 'Boys From The Blackstuff' comes to the Regent on the latest leg of its 2025 UK tour. Based on the TV drama series written by Alan Bleasdale transmitting from 10 October to 7 November 1982, the stage play premiered in 2023. Following the dwindling fortunes and hopes of Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser, the boys are used to hard work and providing for their families, but there is no work and no money. Through their struggles, Bleasdale sheds light on the devastating impact of unemployment,…
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Review: ‘Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt’ At New Vic

Review: ‘Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt’ At New Vic

Photo credit Andrew Billington The New Vic hosts 'Whatever Happened To Phoebe Salt', the centrepiece of 'Arthur Berry 100', marking the centenary of the local playwright and poet's birth. Penned especially for the New Vic in 1988 but never performed, Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt was the last play Arthur Berry wrote, and has been edited by New Vic Artistic Director Theresa Heskins. The performance schedule also spanning the 100th year anniversary date of Stoke-on-Trent getting it's city status, the cast is made up largely of local actors including Isabella Rossi, who is making her stage debut. Initially set in Stoke in…
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Review: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Review: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

Photo credit Brinkhoff-Moegenburg The spectacular stage production of the 1950's C.S. Lewis classic comes to Regent Theatre on the latest leg of its UK 2025 tour. Opening in 2017, the production follows four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie who are evacuated from London in 1940, to escape the Blitz, and sent to live with Professor Digory Kirke at a large house in the English countryside. While exploring the house, Lucy enters a wardrobe and finds herself in the magical world of Narnia, under the tyrannical rule of the White Witch. It fuses imaginative storytelling with theatrical ingenuity. The…
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